Passing boot logs to Linux?

Mark Kettenis mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl
Wed Dec 20 11:31:07 CET 2023


> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 23:45:48 -0500
> From: Sean Anderson <seanga2 at gmail.com>
> 
> On 12/19/23 23:11, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Hi Csókás,
> > 
> > On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 at 13:15, Csókás Bence <Csokas.Bence at prolan.hu> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> Is passing the U-Boot boot log to Linux supported yet? We are working
> >> with a third-party solution, which works, but is a bit hacky, so I was
> >> wondering if an official solution has been merged yet.
> >>
> >> I saw that there was an option CONFIG_CONSOLE_RECORD that saves
> >> everything to a membuff, but I don't know if that can be exported to
> >> Linux yet. And if not in the tree yet, would such a patch be welcome?
> > 
> > Not yet, but yes I would like to see this.
> 
> I think most of the infrastructure is already here. We could use
> either console recording (as mentioned above), which is more
> complete, or a new LOG_DRIVER (which would have the advantage of
> omitting things like countdowns).
> 
> In terms of sending things to Linux, I think the natural choice
> would be pstore, which we already have a parser for.

Well, this should be OS-agnostic of course ;)

What is pstore?  Is this documented somewhere?


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